Downside to this is the interest from your HELOC will offset a good chunk of the 17-19% returns you would get from investing passivelyAgain no answer is right or wrong.

Equity or Debt Financing.Equity being, the partnership shares in ownership of the property for both upside and downside.

., etc.) and it wasn't in a market that was shrinking I'd be all about it...The downside is that I think they're difficult to find unless you have a marketing strategy and if you get it through a realtor it will likely tie up capital. 

You do not necessarily need an LLC before your first deal, but the downside of that is that you are liable if something happens since you are going into business with rental property.

So, if you want to compartmentalize your assets into separate child series and limit your downside risk like the Series LLC, but not pay the $800 franchise tax, you can do that.

So if you're income is 50,000 and the 3 units rental income is 36000 annualized and your local AMI is 90,000 then you wont qualify because 80% of 90,000 is 72,000 and your combined rental and salary is 86,000 (example).This basically leaves you with the FHA owner occupied option to keep your min down payment low at 3.5% up to 4 units.The down side with FHA is the property (if 3-4 unit) will be subject to self sufficiency rules which states that 75% of the rents from all units at the property, even the owner occupied unit, must exceed the monthly mortgage payment or PITI (prin/int/taxes/ins).

The downside is you must register it as an exempt security. 

One downside to MTRs we found is it can take a long time to get superhost on Airbnb. 

The only downside I've experienced is when there was a fire in commerce city that floated the smoke all the way to Westminster. 

Any downside they if they dont sign a new lease they are living their without a expired lease?